![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | [Twin Peaks Tunnel Construction and Opening] - Unknown
Twin Peaks trolley tunnel under construction and opening ceremony.
Keywords: San Francisco: Infrastructure
Downloads: 15,419
Average rating:  (1 review) |  |
| [San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge Groundbreaking] - Unknown
Dignitaries celebrate the beginning of construction on this important structure.
Keywords: San Francisco: Infrastructure; Ceremonies
Downloads: 2,442
Average rating:  (2 reviews) |  |
| San Francisco by the Golden Gate - Central Films
Tour of scenic locations in San Francisco and environs.
Keywords: San Francisco: Scenics: Historical
Downloads: 4,777
Average rating:  (1 review) |  |
| [Farewell to Treasure Island] - Allen (Ken)
Conclusion of the Golden Gate International Exposition on Treasure Island in San Francisco Bay, California.
Keywords: San Francisco: Scenics: Historical; World's Fairs: San Francisco, 1939-40
Downloads: 5,764
Average rating: (3 reviews) |  |
| [San Francisco Longshore Strike] (Part I) - Unknown
Longshoremen close down the Port of San Francisco in the spring of 1934.
Keywords: San Francisco: Labor; Labor: Strikes
Downloads: 2,081
Average rating: (1 review) |  |
| [See America First] - Unknown
Actress Kay Gordon visits various Oakland, California businesses.
Keywords: San Francisco Bay Area: Oakland
Downloads: 1,355
Average rating: (1 review) |  |
| [Panama-Pacific International Exposition] - Unknown
Images of the Fair.
Keywords: World's Fairs: San Francisco, 1915
Downloads: 2,559
Average rating: (2 reviews) |  |
| Panama-Pacific International Exposition - Vail (Frank W.)
Revisitation of the 1915 San Francisco Exposition, with added narration that focuses on nostalgia and memory. With excellent footage of many aspects of the Fair, beginning with groundbreaking on February 25, 1911.
Keywords: World's Fairs: San Francisco, 1915
Downloads: 2,899
Average rating: (3 reviews) |  |
| [San Francisco Longshore Strike] (Part II) - Unknown
Longshoremen close down the Port of San Francisco in the spring of 1934.
Keywords: San Francisco: Labor; Labor: Strikes
Downloads: 1,673
Average rating: (1 review) |  |
| Story of Jewel City, The - Exposition Players Corporation
Fantasy film produced for the Panama-Pacific International Exposition.
Keywords: World's Fairs: San Francisco, 1915
Downloads: 4,254
Average rating:  (5 reviews) |  |
| [Kay Stinson, Aviator] - Unknown
Kay Stinson, noted woman aviatrix, breaks the speed record from San Diego to San Francisco with an average speed of 66 mph.
Keywords: Aviation: Women; San Francisco: Aviation
Downloads: 4,014
Average rating: (3 reviews) |  |
| [Panama-Pacific International Exposition color footage] - Unknown
Images of the 1915 San Francisco world's fair.
Keywords: World's Fairs: San Francisco, 1915
Downloads: 2,463
Average rating:  (1 review) |  |
| [Panama-Pacific International Exposition] - Unknown
Dignitaries and ceremonies at the Fair.
Keywords: World's Fairs: San Francisco, 1915
Downloads: 2,034
Average rating: (1 review) |  |
| [Oakland, California Real Estate Promotional Film] - Havens (Wickham)
Real estate promotional film on Oakland, California and her sister cities made by Wickham Havens, a local developer.
Keywords: San Francisco Bay Area: Oakland
Downloads: 5,958
Average rating: (4 reviews) |  |
| [Edison Newsreels: San Francisco Earthquake aftermath] - Edison (Thomas A.)
Cleaning up downtown San Francisco after the conflagration.
Keywords: Earthquakes: San Francisco, 1906; San Francisco: Disasters
Downloads: 43,234
Average rating: (11 reviews) |  |
| Lost Landscapes of San Francisco 7
Lost Landscapes of San Francisco 7
Keywords: Lost Landscapes; San Francisco
Downloads: 1,627
Average rating: (1 review) |  |
| [Golden Gate Bridge Opening] - N/A
Scenes on opening day.
Keywords: San Francisco: Infrastructure
Downloads: 10,737
Average rating:  (3 reviews) |  |
| [Pathe News: Goodman Lumber Fire] - Warner Pathé News
Newsreel featuring a conflagration at the famous San Francisco lumberyard.
Keywords: San Francisco: Disasters; Fires and firefighting; Newsreels
Downloads: 3,355
Average rating: (2 reviews) |  |
| March of Progress, The - Harman (Hugh) Productions
Tour of the modern interurban trolley system of San Francisco's East Bay and over the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. Predicts the bright postwar future of streetcar transit, with visionary images of advanced-design railcars. The Key System transbay service was abandoned in 1961.
Keywords: San Francisco: Infrastructure; Transportation: Interurban streetcars
Downloads: 8,611
Average rating: (3 reviews) |  |
| Home Movies: Can 11229: San Francisco Tourism
San Francisco as shot by tourists, early 1960s. Includes Fishermen's Wharf area, Marina Green, Alcatraz, etc.
Keywords: San Francisco; travel and tourism; home movies
Downloads: 420
Average rating: (1 review) |  |
| [Pan American Clipper] - Pan American Airways
Scenes of Pan American's China Clippers flying in and around San Francisco Bay, including through the incomplete towers of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge.
Keywords: San Francisco: Aviation; Aviation: Commercial; Pacific Rim
Downloads: 9,946
Average rating: (3 reviews) |  |
| [Opium Destruction, San Francisco 1914] - Unknown
Government agents burn confiscated opium near unfinished San Francisco City Hall, and destroy other confiscated Chinese drugs.
Keywords: Substance abuse: Drugs; San Francisco: History
Downloads: 10,258
Average rating: (6 reviews) |  |
| [Union Square, San Francisco Fashion Show] - Universal-International Newsreel
1950s fashion show is staged on a runway set up in the middle of Union Square Park, San Francisco. Newsreel story.
Keywords: Newsreels; San Francisco: Fashion shows; Models
Downloads: 7,471
Average rating: (4 reviews) |  |
| Tribune-American Dream Picture - Oakland Tribune-American
Astonishing film sponsored by a newspaper which held a contest for the most unusual dream and then made it into a short film. A woman dreams of losing her baby, rowing across San Francisco Bay and finding her child in an unusual place.
Keywords: San Francisco Bay Area: Oakland; Dreams; Surrealism
Downloads: 18,704
Average rating: (11 reviews) |  |
| [Parade Celebrating Chinese Republic] - Unknown
San Francisco, California: Parade celebrating the formation of the Chinese Republic under Sun Yat-Sen.
Keywords: Chinese Americans; Parades; San Francisco: Chinese Americans
Downloads: 3,055
Average rating: (1 review) |  |
| Bridging San Francisco Bay - Handy (Jam) Organization
Building the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge.
Keywords: Infrastructure: Bridges; San Francisco: Infrastructure; Occupations: Ironworkers
Downloads: 29,761
Average rating: (8 reviews) |  |
| [Dole Air Race, 1927] - Kinograms
Aviation's elite converges on Oakland for the Dole race to Hawaii.
Keywords: Aviation: History; Newsreels; San Francisco: Aviation
Downloads: 7,169
Average rating: (4 reviews) |  |
| Ask Me, Don't Tell Me - Myers (David)
San Francisco teenage gangs and the unfriendly world they inhabit.
Keywords: San Francisco: Juvenile delinquents; Teenagers; Juvenile delinquency
Downloads: 34,471
Average rating: (7 reviews) |  |
| [Dead Fair] - Telenews
Treasure Island, in San Francisco Bay, shown after the closure of the Golden Gate International Exposition.
Keywords: World's Fairs: San Francisco, 1939-40; Newsreels
Downloads: 4,157
Average rating: (2 reviews) |  |
| San Francisco Earthquake Aftermath, Part 2 - N/A
Views of destruction taken from a vehicle moving east down Market Street.
Keywords: Earthquakes: San Francisco, 1906; San Francisco: Disasters
Downloads: 29,431
Average rating: (8 reviews) |  |
| San Francisco Earthquake Aftermath, Part 6 - N/A
Riding down Market Street to inspect the destruction.
Keywords: Earthquakes: San Francisco, 1906; San Francisco: Disasters
Downloads: 7,919
Average rating: (1 review) |  |
| Brooklyn Goes to San Francisco - Universal Pictures
Brooklyn native Phil Foster tours San Francisco and comments on many places of interest.
Keywords: San Francisco: Humor; San Francisco Bay Area; California: History and culture
Downloads: 5,986
Average rating: (5 reviews) |  |
| [Soldier With Big Feet] - Universal-International Newsreel
Soldier at Presidio of San Francisco wears size 16 AAA shoes; the army has none in stock in his size. Newsreel story.
Keywords: Newsreels; Military: U.S. Army; San Francisco: Presidio of San Francisco
Downloads: 14,799
Average rating: (7 reviews) |  |
| California Is Climate - Palmer (W.A.) Films, Inc.
Promotional film for the eastern San Francisco Bay Area (Alameda and part of Contra Costa counties) emphasizing its excellent weather, advanced infrastructure, and cultural and economic advantages.
Keywords: San Francisco Bay Area: Alameda County; San Francisco Bay Area: Industry; Weather
Downloads: 3,868
Average rating: (2 reviews) |  |
| Three to Get Ready: A Progress Report from BART - Levene (Carol)
Shows stages in the construction of the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit system.
Keywords: San Francisco Bay Area: BART; Transportation: Subways and metros; San Francisco Bay Area: Infrastructure
Downloads: 5,444
Average rating: (2 reviews) |  |
| [California Color Film / Golden Gate International Exposition] - Unknown
Views of pre-World War II San Francisco and the Golden Gate International Exposition.
Keywords: California: History and culture; World's Fairs: San Francisco, 1939-40; San Francisco: Scenics: Historical
Downloads: 10,699
Average rating: (2 reviews) |  |
| [Oakland Oaks Baseball Season Opens] - Unknown
Baseball season opens in Oakland, California: April 2, 1918; auto parade through downtown streets and pregame warmup.
Keywords: San Francisco Bay Area: Baseball; San Francisco Bay Area: Oakland; Sports: Baseball
Downloads: 8,006
Average rating: (3 reviews) |  |
| [Amateur film: Summers collection: San Francisco, California, 1941] (Part II) - Summers, John H.
Evocative silent Kodachrome compendium of San Francisco scenes just before the U.S. entered World War II, concentrating on aerials, Chinatown, Market Street, and transportation scenes.
Keywords: San Francisco: Scenics: Historical
Downloads: 5,927
Average rating: (3 reviews) |  |
| [Amateur film: Summers collection: San Francisco, California, 1941] (Part I) - Summers, John H.
Evocative silent Kodachrome compendium of San Francisco scenes just before the U.S. entered World War II, concentrating on aerials, Chinatown, Market Street, and transportation scenes.
Keywords: San Francisco: Scenics: Historical
Downloads: 36,569
Average rating: (2 reviews) |  |
| [Amateur film: San Francisco] - Unknown
Pre-World War II San Francisco scenics.
Keywords: San Francisco: Scenics: Historical
Downloads: 8,230
Average rating: (5 reviews) |  |
| San Francisco Earthquake Aftermath, Part 1 - Unknown
Scenes of displaced people and damaged buildings in San Francisco after the 1906 earthquake and fire. Original film is in need of repair, jumps and rolls out of frame.
Keywords: San Francisco: Disasters; Earthquakes: San Francisco, 1906; Fires and firefighting
Downloads: 17,163
Average rating: (5 reviews) |  |
| San Francisco 1939
0589 PA8114 San Francisco 1939
Keywords: Amateur Films; Earthquakes: San Francisco, 1906; San Francisco: Scenics: Historical; San Francisco: Disasters
Downloads: 7,960
Average rating: (3 reviews) |  |
| Golden Gate City - Castle Films
The World Parade, produced by Castle Films, distributed by University of Alabama 0659 PA8627 Golden Gate City
Keywords: San Francisco Bay Area; San Francisco Bay Area: Infrastructure; San Francisco: Scenics: Historical
Downloads: 3,364
Average rating: (4 reviews) |  |
| San Francisco Earthquake Aftermath, Part 5
Scenes from an early newsreel of the fire and earthquake destruction of San Francisco in 1906
Keywords: Earthquakes: San Francisco; 1906; San Francisco: Disasters; San Francisco: Scenics: Historical
Downloads: 3,233
Average rating: (3 reviews) |  |
| [San Francisco Earthquake Aftermath, Part 3 - Unknown
Chilling post-earthquake footage, shot in the Western Addition and on Market Street in San Francisco. The first sequence (Western Addition) shows a great deal of evocative neighborhood detail from one hundred years ago.
Keywords: Earthquakes: San Francisco, 1906; San Francisco: Disasters; San Francisco: Scenics: Historical
Downloads: 24,040
Average rating: (6 reviews) |  |
| San Francisco Earthquake Aftermath, Part 4
Scenes from an early newsreel of the fire and earthquake destruction of San Francisco in 1906
Keywords: Earthquakes: San Francisco; 1906; San Francisco: Disasters; San Francisco: Scenics: Historical
Downloads: 3,599 |  |
| [San Francisco General Strike] (Part II) - Pathe News
Union workers in San Francisco stage a general strike, shutting down the city to support striking longshoremen.
Keywords: San Francisco: Labor; Labor: Strikes; Labor: 1930s
Downloads: 4,442
Average rating: (1 review) |  |
| San Francisco (1955 Cinemascope film) - Tullio Pellegrini
Cinemascope homage to the city of San Francisco made by amateur filmmaker and inventor Tullio Pellegrini.
Keywords: san francisco; amateur film; widescreen; Cinemascope, pasta1
Downloads: 406,496
Average rating: (8 reviews) |  |
| [San Francisco General Strike] (Part I) - Pathe News
Union workers in San Francisco stage a general strike, shutting down the city to support striking longshoremen.
Keywords: San Francisco: Labor; Labor: Strikes; Labor: 1930s
Downloads: 5,647
Average rating: (2 reviews) |  |
| Operation Correction (Part II) - American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Northern California
In May 1960, students and progressive activists opposed to the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) demonstrated when HUAC held hearings in San Francisco's City Hall. San Francisco police turned firehoses on the demonstrators, washing them down the main staircase of City Hall, and the resultant publicity did much to engender the social consciousness of the 1960s. HUAC sympathizers produced a film, "Operation Abolition," condemning the demonstrators as Communist-inspired activists...
Keywords: Social issues: 1960s; Civil rights; San Francisco: Political activity
Downloads: 3,562
Average rating: (2 reviews) |  |
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